tap tap tap Is this thing on? Hello?
Hi. This is T from the Time Agency. I wasn't going to unsock until I realized how much I wanted to stay friends with a lot of you. So here goes.
Some of you know me as gypsylady. I found out about ask_captainjack and the Askverse from someone on Ravelry because while I am a member of torch_wood I hadn't paid all that much attention. Let's face it, torch_wood can get pretty overwhelming. But I saw right off, once I checked it out, that I wanted to play with whoever was playing at being Captain Jack.
I started out, I think, by claiming to understand how a peninsula can be a ring. Someone spotted a discrepancy in the good Captain's description of Boeshane and he needed backup. So, under gypsylady I claimed to be from another of the "ring peninsulas." And thus was born one of the longest-running silly one-liners of my life. I only lasted about a week under my real name and I decided I needed to have a separate identity to play with this person. Thus was born "Timeagency," who was a former Time Agent, sometimes partnered with Jack and/or with John Hart, and feeling quite proud of the mayhem.
At about this time, ask_aboutcoffee appeared and I worried that I'd stepped into someone else's game. I mean, look, they both have ASK in their names and I don't! When dontask_pcandy appeared at about the same time, I was even more concerned. But the moment "Andy" started to flirt with me (Yurts? WTF was that about yurts? Now, me, personally, I love yurts. But T, a 52nd or so century admin? In a yurt? Oh, that still makes me giggle.) I realized it wasn't THAT kind of a game. So I went for it whole hog.
At one point, Ianto decided I needed a name (because all they could call me was "that Admin from the Time Agency, the one who works for Jabba the Boss.") So I went with the letter T. It was my code name when I worked with Jack and Hart. That's when Jack gave up giving me interesting names. I think he'd used up everything that started with T, especially when he gave Theresa to the dog. (It's my RL middle name, btw. I'm still shaking my head!) Hart never gave up, though. It's why I'm so confident he'll find Bebe someday.
Gradually everyone showed up. From ask-myfanwy to Martha "ask_arealdoctor" Jones, they were all there. (Okay, ask_janet came a little later but she was brilliant nonetheless.) And a friend who sometimes borrowed my computer decided to get in on the fun. She doesn't have a LiveJournal and I'm not going to out her, but she decided to be Jenny the Doctor's Daughter. (This was after askfor_bananas, the 9th Doctor pre-Rose, showed up. I don't know why that inspired her but it did.) This resulted in some very funny errors when I didn't realize she hadn't logged off and I would post T's stuff as her and much scrambling about resulted. (I'm so sorry, dontask_pcandy, that I cussed about Dell computers without explaining. I hope you understand now what that was all about.) But she objected to the underscore as it caused her to screw up too often while logging in, which is why she because askmydad instead of any of the variations that would fit the generally accepted naming conventions.
My friend minxlaurel wanted to join in and she had this clever idea about bringing back Suzie Costello. The trouble is, she couldn't quite get in to log in, much less to post. I therefore became the keeper of thedarkisasking and is why Suzie, while pithy and snarky, didn't do more than just comment in passing. While I have to hand it to Laurel; the idea was brilliant and executed well, I'm not going to be the Hands of Suzie anymore. (The farting Owen comments had me laughing too hard in public anyway.)
It was a glorious time. I have never told anyone why Rhys went down in history as awesome as we fell through the Rift due to Martha's cat Tomb Raider and into an alternate future where Rhys is awesome as the only person in twenty centuries who can operate a CB radio. (I'm still a little worried about Jack meeting himself in this future but I'm sure Ianto can smooth that over like he did having sex with himself from the future.)
My favorite moments other than those already mentioned were:
Constantly having to find new names for Hart (I finally gave up and went with just calling him Hart although some of the more obscure ones I found on http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/ were magnificent.)
Naming aliens. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html is a great tool for that.
Doing the whole great romance space opera thing with Andy. I don't generally like men (in that context. I rather like being friends with many of them) but this was fantastic. If Andy were ever to become the Doctor's Companion and take along a vacationing Time Agent as his girlfriend, it would NEVER be as great as we made it. Andy, wherever and WHOever you are (email me? Please? I won't tell!) you were FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT and I'm sure the 11th Doctor will have another word I can use for you.
Having to kiss up to Jack and still not be allowed anywhere near Cardiff. It took me a long time to figure out a way around that. (Insurance coverage is a lot better at the Agency since he left and full and timely regeneration of destroyed body parts is covered except for eyes which require a trip to the emergency room.)
And something I did that I never got to go anywhere with. I named all the Ring Peninsulas and came up with sandball team names for them all:
1. Boeshane (obviously!) home of the Boe Dukes. (I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.)
2. Doeshane (Hart's home) (The Deers? The Stags? Help me out, people.)
3. Foeshane (Still working on it.)
4. Goeshane (Since I have no idea if Goe is really a word I got nothing.)
5. Hoeshane (Farmers? Although Hoeshane Hookers has some promise.)
6. Joeshane (I think the team name would have to be Plumbers.)
7. Loeshane (The Lindseys? Ooooh, bad, really bad.)
8. Moeshane (my own sweet home although Dad was from Boe. Team is the Curlies)
9. Noeshane (still working on that one)
10. Poeshane (Ravens. Of course.)
11. Roeshane (Sturgeons sounds wrong but it's the best I have.)
12. Toeshane (Jam is just....wrong...)
13. Woeshane (Mourners is the weirdest of them all so far.)
(yes I skipped a few. Even I have my limits!)
I am now working on the tale of how Jack struck out definitively saved the day with a brilliant negative strategy for the Boeshane Dukes. It will be similar to "Casey at the Bat." When I'm done
I'll post it in askverse_fic so hurry over there and join.
It's what Captain Jack would do!
Wow, tough crowd!
Some of you know me as gypsylady. I found out about ask_captainjack and the Askverse from someone on Ravelry because while I am a member of torch_wood I hadn't paid all that much attention. Let's face it, torch_wood can get pretty overwhelming. But I saw right off, once I checked it out, that I wanted to play with whoever was playing at being Captain Jack.
I started out, I think, by claiming to understand how a peninsula can be a ring. Someone spotted a discrepancy in the good Captain's description of Boeshane and he needed backup. So, under gypsylady I claimed to be from another of the "ring peninsulas." And thus was born one of the longest-running silly one-liners of my life. I only lasted about a week under my real name and I decided I needed to have a separate identity to play with this person. Thus was born "Timeagency," who was a former Time Agent, sometimes partnered with Jack and/or with John Hart, and feeling quite proud of the mayhem.
At about this time, ask_aboutcoffee appeared and I worried that I'd stepped into someone else's game. I mean, look, they both have ASK in their names and I don't! When dontask_pcandy appeared at about the same time, I was even more concerned. But the moment "Andy" started to flirt with me (Yurts? WTF was that about yurts? Now, me, personally, I love yurts. But T, a 52nd or so century admin? In a yurt? Oh, that still makes me giggle.) I realized it wasn't THAT kind of a game. So I went for it whole hog.
At one point, Ianto decided I needed a name (because all they could call me was "that Admin from the Time Agency, the one who works for Jabba the Boss.") So I went with the letter T. It was my code name when I worked with Jack and Hart. That's when Jack gave up giving me interesting names. I think he'd used up everything that started with T, especially when he gave Theresa to the dog. (It's my RL middle name, btw. I'm still shaking my head!) Hart never gave up, though. It's why I'm so confident he'll find Bebe someday.
Gradually everyone showed up. From ask-myfanwy to Martha "ask_arealdoctor" Jones, they were all there. (Okay, ask_janet came a little later but she was brilliant nonetheless.) And a friend who sometimes borrowed my computer decided to get in on the fun. She doesn't have a LiveJournal and I'm not going to out her, but she decided to be Jenny the Doctor's Daughter. (This was after askfor_bananas, the 9th Doctor pre-Rose, showed up. I don't know why that inspired her but it did.) This resulted in some very funny errors when I didn't realize she hadn't logged off and I would post T's stuff as her and much scrambling about resulted. (I'm so sorry, dontask_pcandy, that I cussed about Dell computers without explaining. I hope you understand now what that was all about.) But she objected to the underscore as it caused her to screw up too often while logging in, which is why she because askmydad instead of any of the variations that would fit the generally accepted naming conventions.
My friend minxlaurel wanted to join in and she had this clever idea about bringing back Suzie Costello. The trouble is, she couldn't quite get in to log in, much less to post. I therefore became the keeper of thedarkisasking and is why Suzie, while pithy and snarky, didn't do more than just comment in passing. While I have to hand it to Laurel; the idea was brilliant and executed well, I'm not going to be the Hands of Suzie anymore. (The farting Owen comments had me laughing too hard in public anyway.)
It was a glorious time. I have never told anyone why Rhys went down in history as awesome as we fell through the Rift due to Martha's cat Tomb Raider and into an alternate future where Rhys is awesome as the only person in twenty centuries who can operate a CB radio. (I'm still a little worried about Jack meeting himself in this future but I'm sure Ianto can smooth that over like he did having sex with himself from the future.)
My favorite moments other than those already mentioned were:
Constantly having to find new names for Hart (I finally gave up and went with just calling him Hart although some of the more obscure ones I found on http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/ were magnificent.)
Naming aliens. http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html is a great tool for that.
Doing the whole great romance space opera thing with Andy. I don't generally like men (in that context. I rather like being friends with many of them) but this was fantastic. If Andy were ever to become the Doctor's Companion and take along a vacationing Time Agent as his girlfriend, it would NEVER be as great as we made it. Andy, wherever and WHOever you are (email me? Please? I won't tell!) you were FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT and I'm sure the 11th Doctor will have another word I can use for you.
Having to kiss up to Jack and still not be allowed anywhere near Cardiff. It took me a long time to figure out a way around that. (Insurance coverage is a lot better at the Agency since he left and full and timely regeneration of destroyed body parts is covered except for eyes which require a trip to the emergency room.)
And something I did that I never got to go anywhere with. I named all the Ring Peninsulas and came up with sandball team names for them all:
1. Boeshane (obviously!) home of the Boe Dukes. (I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.)
2. Doeshane (Hart's home) (The Deers? The Stags? Help me out, people.)
3. Foeshane (Still working on it.)
4. Goeshane (Since I have no idea if Goe is really a word I got nothing.)
5. Hoeshane (Farmers? Although Hoeshane Hookers has some promise.)
6. Joeshane (I think the team name would have to be Plumbers.)
7. Loeshane (The Lindseys? Ooooh, bad, really bad.)
8. Moeshane (my own sweet home although Dad was from Boe. Team is the Curlies)
9. Noeshane (still working on that one)
10. Poeshane (Ravens. Of course.)
11. Roeshane (Sturgeons sounds wrong but it's the best I have.)
12. Toeshane (Jam is just....wrong...)
13. Woeshane (Mourners is the weirdest of them all so far.)
(yes I skipped a few. Even I have my limits!)
I am now working on the tale of how Jack struck out definitively saved the day with a brilliant negative strategy for the Boeshane Dukes. It will be similar to "Casey at the Bat." When I'm done
I'll post it in askverse_fic so hurry over there and join.
It's what Captain Jack would do!
Wow, tough crowd!